1 Chronicles 21:3

3But Joab said, “May the Lord add to his people a hundred times as many as they are! Are they not, my lord the king, all of them my lord’s servants? Why then should my lord require this? Why should it be a cause of guilt for Israel?”

1 Chronicles 21:6

6 aBut he did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, for the king’s command was abhorrent to Joab.

1 Chronicles 27:23

23David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the bLord had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.
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